@CantCookStillTry – love Yorkies and Bisto. That is my kind of meal! It is what I was raised on. When I was a little girl and my mom married my English stepdad, and I finally got sibliings (3 sisters) I discovered that British food suited my 9 year old palate quite well – roast meats, potatoes, Brussels sprouts (weird kid, I know), Yorkies and lashings of gravy on everything. My mom never cooked a roast or a chicken big enough to make enough real gravy to satisfy us, so Bisto stretched it out.
@liamsaunt – that is a lovely coating that you got on that oven-cooked fish. I would do a LOT more oven frying if my coatings looked like that. Also – going back to the chicken that you made for your sister and you. How was that cooked? I love the all over color of it.
The night before Easter was egg dyeing night and dinner was these:
Along with pierogis and asparagus.
My plate with HP:
Dinner and egg dyeing came together when Jessica decided to dye some pierogis:
LOL
Jessica came over and made some delicious muffins for brunch Easter morning. The thing was that she was supposed to be here at 10AM to start them and didn’t get here until after 2pm. We didn’t eat until almost 3:30. And we all had TWO while watching a kid’s Easter movie. A coma commenced, Jessica went back to her apartment and we all napped. I woke up around 7pm – too late to start the Easter dinner we had planned. So Mr. Kim and I ended up in the Wendy’s parking lot eating cheeseburgers and then going to church to count any checks that had come in while we weren’t having services (except on FB) and doing the inventory for the St. Martin’s Project food (making lunches to take to homeless shelters), which we are still doing. So we had Easter dinner on Monday!
Easter during the pandemic was definitely toned down. We are trying to shop as little as possible and even when we do go to the store, we try to go in and get what we need and do the self check-out. So, we planned a menu based on mainly what we had and shopped for the couple of things we needed. The menuu:
Ham biscuits w/ sweet potato butter
@Marlene’s Broccoli Gratin w/ Streusel
Spiced peaches
Corn on the cob
Deviled eggs
Almond Joy Cake
Edwards’ Ham:
Biscuits:
They are Pillsbury frozen ones. I brushed with a butter/Worcestershire/Dijon mixture before baking.
Sweet potato butter:
Broccoli Gratin:
Spiced peaches:
These were a Christmas gift from a friend (purchased, not homemade).
Jessica’s deviled eggs:
Corn:
Plated:
Dessert is not worth posting on the Sweets thread. So just a casual mention here. I did a Almond Joy Cake with cake mix and canned frosting:
I added a little coconut flavoring to the cake mix. I am not opposed to cake mixes or canned frosting (true confessions time). I use them sometimes, usually adding ingredients or “fixing them up” in some way. But both the texture and flavor were “off” in this cake. You can see all those big bubbles in the cake – it was a bit tough. And it tasted very processed. This was a Betty Crocker and I normally buy Duncan Hines. I have no idea if that could have made such a difference.
